ON THE TRAIL OF NEGRO FOLK-SONGS
A Collection Of Negro Traditional & Folk Songs with Sheet Music Lyrics & Commentaries - online book
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INGO-ANGO FAY |
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Go fay, go fay!
Ingo-ango fay!
Circle this house in a hoo-sal lay,
In a-ingo-ango fay.
Go fay, go fay!
Ingo-ango fay!
Will jew my 'ligion away.
Mumbi, kiki, joki lo,
In a-ingo-ango fay!
A wordless chant was given me by Miss Emilie Walter of Charleston, South Carolina. Miss Walter says, "There is one song in which no words are used, only the sound 'un' sung through the nose, with the mouth open. This is a very sacred song, kept for the most exalted moment of getting religion. It is never sung in the presence of adult white persons, but a small white child had a keen musical ear and tenacious memory. The low voices begin it. It is taken up by the higher voices, then the top-notch sopranos come in and make a complete fugue. They sing this until the sinner is converted and the piercing shrieks of the converted finish the fugue."
Elizabeth Sullivan sent a couple of songs and an account of an unconventional singer. " The Reverend Paul Sykes, bishop, pastor and janitor of the First Straight Gate Church of Kingsfisher, Oklahoma, who sang these songs, is a most interesting old man. He founded his church, and in order to get funds with which to build it and keep it |
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